Alan ‘Ace’ Greenberg

Jul 25, 2014 1:39 pm ET

To mark the death today of Alan “Ace” Greenberg, head of Bear Stearns when it was one of the biggest and most daring investment banks, we look back at this Page One article from his glory years in 1982. “You could put him in an empty room and lock him up, and he’d think of some way to make money.” Today in WSJ History.

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